CVE-2004-2595: Id Software Quake Ii Server Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Quake II server before R1Q2 on Linux, as used in multiple products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a download command with a full pathname for a directory in the argument, which causes the server to crash when it cannot read data.

Affected products

• Id Software Quake Ii Server Linux: version 3.20 only; version 3.21 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.